"An extra layer?"
Just a few words, like a basin of cold water poured on the head, a biting chill spread all over the body, and the indescribable atmosphere made people breathless.
Seen from all the way.
The supreme ruler of the ancient Jingjue Kingdom is the queen.
Above all living beings.
And her boundless magic power comes from that indescribable 'god'.
As for the ‘Guardian’ with a human head and a snake body, the appearance is not surprising.
The more I think about it, the weirder their expressions become.
“Could it be...a ghost?”
Yang Fang frowned and suddenly made a guess.
Gods, humans, ghosts.
From top to bottom, it represents heaven, man and earth, which seems to make sense.
But as soon as he spoke, Partridge Whistle shook his head, "It's unlikely. From all the current murals and written records, there is no mention of the concept that ghosts have a higher status than humans. "
"Also...if I guess correctly."
Partridge Whistle lowered his head and pointed down.
"The black tower should have seven floors, and an underground palace, symbolizing the evil ghosts of hell."
Unless it is the ancient Di Qiang Malu Village, or the Turkic Shaman type, there has been a tradition of worshiping ghosts and offering sacrifices since ancient times. In their religious beliefs, ghosts and gods have the same status.
Ghosts are also gods.
Otherwise, most sects, such as Buddhism, Tantra or Taoism.
People are above ghosts.
"Real or false?"
Yang Fang frowned slightly. Before coming up, they didn't seem to find a passage to the ground in the first-floor stone hall.
"Brother Dao's guess must be correct."
"Shopkeeper, that disappeared floor..."
Huamaguai opened his mouth to speak, but Chen Yulou He just waved his hand and went straight around the stone stairs to go upstairs.
He knew exactly what was on the fourth floor.
But the words imaginary number space themselves are difficult to understand, let alone describe them in simple and easy-to-understand words.
So the best way is to let them see it.
The group of people looked at each other, not daring to delay, and quickly followed.
Although this black tower has been built for thousands of years and has been eroded by wind, rain, sand and dust, it is still as solid as a rock.
Thumping footsteps.
Walk back and forth in the black tower.
It feels like going deep into the ruins and peering into the ancient times.
The stone staircase is not long, and it only takes about thirty steps in a circle. Yang Fang, the leader, is very fast. He jumps a few steps, as if chasing the wind, and reaches the fourth floor in the blink of an eye.
Hold the wind lantern and shine it around.
Fire dispels darkness.
But what surprised him was that the huge stone hall was completely empty. Not only did the imaginary stone statue of the Queen not exist, but even the base of the stone statue was not seen.
"Have you seen a ghost?"
Hua Maguai, who was following closely behind, saw that he was stunned in place, looking unbelievable, and couldn't help but said.
“No…”
"This floor has been evacuated."
Yang Fang knew that he had misunderstood, so he shook his head and explained.
"How is it possible..."
How can Huamaguai believe that there are no traces of anyone touching the bottom three floors, but the fourth floor has been evacuated?
But wait for his eyes to scan around.
The smile on his face suddenly froze little by little.
Except for the ghost cave inscriptions on the wall, there is really nothing in the stone hall.
At least there were still three or two big fish and small shrimps that could be fished out from the altar in the West Night Kingdom. This elite country claimed to unite the thirty-six countries in the Western Region and received countless sacrifices every year.
As a result, not even a single earth snake was seen in the place where the gods were worshiped.
“What’s going on?”
The two of them were in shock and doubt.
The group of people behind them finally arrived.
When the shopkeeper asked, Huama spread her hands and said briefly weakly.
Hearing this, the Partridge Sentinel brothers and the group of guys who followed couldn’t help but look at each other.
At this moment, it seemed that all the previous speculations were gone.
"How could this happen?"
"It's not that they were moved away, it should be that the stone statues were not placed in the first place..."
Looking around, I couldn't find any stone foundations on the ground. trace.
Seeing this situation, everyone looked even weirder.
I can’t understand the reason for doing this at all.
"Empty? Nothing? Void?"
Partridge Whistle frowned.
Looking at the stone palace shrouded in darkness, for a moment, he seemed to have caught something.
The last chapter of the sixteen-character yin-yang feng shui is a blank wordless heavenly book.
That is, the legendary empty character chapter.
It is a metaphor that the elephant is invisible and the loud sound is meaningless.
Is it the same here now?
"Senior brother?"
The old foreigner was looking around hesitantly, and he couldn't see through it even with his experience. Suddenly, a familiar figure was heading upstairs.
The figure is extremely fast, as if he is eager to prove something.
"Don't worry, Brother Dao must have noticed something."
Seeing his worry, Chen Yulou patted his shoulder and smiled gently.
While talking.
Others followed suit.
When they entered the fifth floor, a black throne suddenly appeared in the stone palace.
Sitting on the throne was a veiled woman.
Although it is a stone figure, the carving is so lifelike that everyone can tell at a glance that it is exactly the same as the Queen Jingjue in the mural.
Seeing this, Partridge Whistle climbed up the steps again, and only stopped when he reached the top.
The top dome of the Black Tower.
It gathers from the four directions toward the center, and finally condenses into a huge black olive-shaped stone ball.
"Eye Totem..."
The moment I saw the stone ball.
Partridge Whistle was refreshed, and countless pictures appeared in his mind.
There are rumors of the Zagrama clan.
There are also things I saw along the way.
And in the end... the picture was fixed on the first half of the last mural in Prince Gumo's tomb.
The queen took off her veil and just glanced at the assassin, who disappeared out of thin air.
"So, the space on the fourth floor is not accidental, but represents the power controlled by the queen..."
The partridge whistle murmured in a low voice.
It was like an enlightenment.
He had never understood why a living person could evaporate directly.
Now, thinking about the fourth floor of the Black Tower, he finally had a guess.
Perhaps the so-called mana is not the witchcraft mastered by Azhiya, but a void space that exists in itself.
The assassin accompanying Prince Gumo did not really disappear out of thin air.
But he was sent into that strange world.
However, with Prince Gumo's vision and strength, he obviously couldn't understand it, so he replaced it with criss-crossing dotted lines in the mural.
Thinking of this, Partridge Whistle’s eyes became more and more clear.
I couldn't help but turn around and look at Chen Yulou, who was standing on the stone steps behind him, staring at the stone ball on the dome with a thoughtful look in his eyes, and briefly stated his guess.
“A world of nothingness?”
“A space that cannot be seen?”
Chen Yulou has not replied yet.
Everyone around him was shocked beyond measure.
Practice to enter the country, fly to heaven and escape from the earth, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is already an act of heaven and man.
Control an unknown world of nothingness.
This is more than just a heavenly being.
It can already be called a god.
In fact, they are not the only ones. Even Partridge Whistle himself cannot imagine it. After all, the three realms of Qi training have not been completed yet, and foundation building is far away, let alone such a realm.
"What do you think, Brother Chen?"
Ignoring the argument among the group, Partridge Whistle just looked at Chen Yulou, seemingly casually, but the change in his eyes was that His inner anxiety was clearly exposed. After all, all this is just his temporary speculation.
And there seems to be no difference between this kind of speculation and fantasy.
But he didn't see any cynicism on Chen Yulou's face. Instead, he looked serious, "I think the name imaginary number space is more suitable."
"Imaginary number space? "
"There is no line in the upper six, it is true and false, there is something wrong with counting, and there is something wrong with God."
Hearing this word, Partridge Whistle's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he murmured something. For a while, the more he thought about it, the more he realized that the word "short" contained everything in his mind.
"Imaginary numbers...good."
"Is there really such a space?"
Seeing that the two of them had already defined the unknown world while talking, the people around them became even more incredible. .
Hearing this, Chen Yulou curled up his lips and looked at Huamaguai, "Then do you think there is an underworld?"
"This..."
Huama turned around and was asked.
Although he relied on bucket buckets to make a living, he was the most superstitious in his life, worshiping mountains and rivers.
As for other people, there may be some who don’t believe in ghosts and gods, but he is definitely not among them.
After hesitating again and again, Huamaguai nodded, "It should be there, right?"
"If it is, then where is the underworld?"
Chen Yulou seemed to have guessed his answer, and then asked another question.
“Isn’t it in Fengdu?”
“We passed by the ancient city of Fengdu before we came here. Have you forgotten, shopkeeper?”
“There really is an underworld in Fengdu. How many ancient cities are there? Ten thousand people, don’t we live together with countless ghosts?”
Chen Yulou sneered at his reply.
There were rumors about the Fengdu Ghost Mansion. When he passed the ancient city that day, he climbed up to take a look. The city was awe-inspiring and there was no ghost feeling at all.
"Shopkeeper...you mean that the underworld is in nothingness?"
Huamaguai frowned, feeling like he was being dizzy.
Folk rumors say that Fengdu Ghost Mansion is one of the thirteen stations of hell in the underworld. He firmly believes this, but Chen Yulou's words made him unable to help but feel doubtful.
"If there really is one."
"Of course."
Sighed.
I don’t know why, when talking about this topic, he suddenly remembered what happened that day at Long Moye in the back mountain of Maluzhai, when the big ghost came and spied on the surroundings.
That weird world.
Perhaps it is the legendary underworld.
Hearing this, the surroundings fell into silence again.
The group of people felt like they were sitting on pins and needles.
Fortunately, Jingjue is dead and the queen has passed away long ago. Otherwise, facing such an opponent, there is no way to think of a way to deal with it.
I don’t know how the coalition forces breached the city.
After all, as long as you take off the veil, you are almost invincible.
"Okay, unless the queen can come back from the dead, we shouldn't have to go to the underworld."
Seeing that the group of people were silent, their expressions could not hide their uneasiness.
Chen Yulou smiled and waved his hand, breaking the silence.
"What about the shopkeeper, what's next?"
Huamaguai thought about it for a moment and asked Xiaoyi.
Ever since he learned about the imaginary number space just now, he always felt that there were invisible eyes peering in the darkness around him, which made him feel like a light on his back, and he just wanted to leave quickly.
“Go outside and have a look.”
Chen Yulou couldn’t tell what he was thinking.
Although the others didn’t speak, they were probably about the same.
And he was still thinking about the reasons for the deaths of the thirteen people outside the city, and he would not stay any longer.
Immediately waved his hand.
Lead everyone along the original path and go straight down.
Compared to when they came up, the team was obviously much faster. When they walked out of the stone door, there was a suppressed exhalation from behind.
Just.
The entire ancient city was almost submerged in yellow sand. Except for the black tower beneath me, there was nothing strange at all.
He knew that the royal city was deep beneath his feet.
But the entrance cannot be found.
That feeling is really helpless.
After a while, seeing that he still didn’t find much, Chen Yulou was already thinking of returning.
As if she could read his thoughts, Huamaguai came closer.
"Shopkeeper, how about I go back first and let the brothers camp under the city wall?"
A team of nearly 300 people.
After running around all day,
I took a break along the way.
We were already short of people and horses.
Moreover, the night is getting darker and darker now, and if you delay for a long time, something may happen easily.
In addition, it is rarely sunny today. If it were elsewhere, it might be a good thing, but in a ghost place like the Black Desert, it is not a good sign. A bigger storm may be brewing.
“That’s fine.”
Chen Yulou has obviously thought of it too.
Follow the current process.
It would take at least two or three hours to walk through a large city with nearly 100,000 households.
But from a physical point of view, as the night gets darker, the temperature continues to drop.
It’s not a bad thing to camp outside the ancient city.
The most important thing is.
During this period, he used his spiritual consciousness to scan the surrounding area. Even if he could not completely cover the ancient city of Jingjue, it was still within a few kilometers.
Judging from the exploration results.
There is no human aura fluctuation in the city for the time being.
Even the previously expected wolf pack beasts seemed to be missing.
He was a little surprised at first, but then he thought about it. Countless dead souls were buried in the city, and there were black snakes roaming around. The bones of the snake god were sitting in the ghost cave of the holy mountain.
The beast that can survive in the black desert.
The keen sense of smell for danger is far superior to that of other species.
Perhaps in their eyes, Jingjue Ancient City is not only not a safe haven, but a terrifying existence like purgatory.
I was suffocated by that aura from afar.
It’s too late to escape.
How could you be in danger?
It was precisely because of all these that Chen Yulou agreed.
"Then...you guys, the shopkeeper?"
Huama stood up and was about to leave, then thought of something again and turned around to look at a few people.
"Naturally, we will return together."
"We are all in the city, and there will be plenty of time next. We will make plans after dawn."
Chen Yulou waved his hand.
Hearing this, the group of people didn’t waste any more time, temporarily gave up the search, and headed straight out of the city in the direction they came from.
It’s a breeze to navigate.
It took more than half an hour before, but now we have completed the journey in less than half an hour.
Under the sand dunes between Shuangheishan and the ancient city.
The team was still waiting quietly, but the seemingly calm team was filled with an indescribable restlessness.
Until a group of people appeared at the city gate.
“The shopkeeper is back.”
The red girl’s eyes lit up instantly.
Even with the invisible pressure that enveloped my body, I felt a lot more relaxed.
The two sides meet.
The kidnapper went to arrange for people to camp nearby.
Chen Yulou and his party found a broken wall that could shelter from the wind, sat around on the sand, and briefly talked about what they saw in the city while looking at Oona.
Right now, she is the only one who has ever entered the ancient city.
Although he knew where the royal city was, he did not know the specific entrance.
Under the premise that Tianxing Feng Shui is difficult to survey, it is still quite difficult to accurately locate it in the vast ancient city.
And Oona, who heard what they saw.
He frowned slightly and hesitated for a moment before speaking softly.
“Have you seen a temple supported by stone pillars?”
“That’s where Atta entered the underground royal city from!” (End of Chapter)